Altman said that in 2015, Musk, along with LinkedIn co-founder Reed Hoffman and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, created a nonprofit that “benefits people” to promote “digital intelligence.” Musk invested $50-100 million in the development of a startup, but there was a feud between them in 2018.
On this occasion, Musk has already said that he does not accept further development ideas because of their dangers. He left the company in 2018 and resigned from the board, freeing himself from further financing obligations. Altman said it was a difficult time.
Various sources also claim that one of the main reasons for Musk’s departure from OpenAI was his conflict of interest with Tesla. Rumors have been circulating lately that the real reason was Musk’s requests to appoint him as chairman of the board, but it didn’t materialize. “He basically said, ‘You’re all bastards,’ and he’s gone,” Reed Hoffman recalled.
“It was very difficult. I had to refocus a lot of my life and time to make sure we had adequate funding,” said Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.
Source: Ferra
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